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Groups, Organizations, and Bureaucracies MCQ

Organizations that people join primarily because of some material benefit they expect to receive in return for membership are called Utilitarian organizations.

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Correct Answer: True

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A group consisting of three persons is called ____.

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Correct Answer: Triad

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A leader who is able to instill in group members a sense of mission or higher purpose, thereby changing (transforming) the nature of the group itself is called ____ leader.

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Correct Answer: Transformational

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A leader who is concerned with accomplishing the group’s tasks, getting group members to do their jobs is called _____ leader.

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Correct Answer: Transactional

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The idea that an overarching structure exists within which culture and other aspects of society must be understood is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Structuralism

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The personal connections and networks that enable people to accomplish their goals and extend their influence is called Social capital.

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Correct Answer: True

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Power that depends on the leader’s role in the group is called ____ power.

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Correct Answer: Positional

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Power that depends on the ability to persuade rather than the ability to command is called ____ power.

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Correct Answer: Personal

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Organizations that people join of their own will to pursue morally worthwhile goals without expectation of material reward is called _____ organizations.

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Correct Answer: Normative

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A type of power that is recognized as deserved or earned is called _____ authority.

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Correct Answer: Legitimate

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Robert Michels’s theory that there is an inevitable tendency for a large-scale bureaucratic organization to become ruled undemocratically by a handful of people is known as Iron law of oligarchy.

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Correct Answer: True

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An international organization established by agreements between the individuals or private organizations making up the membership and existing to fulfill an explicit mission is known as _____ non government organization.

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Correct Answer: International

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An international organization established to facilitate and regulate trade between the member countries, promote national security, protect social welfare and human rights is called the International governmental organization.

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Correct Answer: True

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A process by which the members of a group ignore ways of thinking and plans of action that go against the group consensus is called ____

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Correct Answer: Groupthink

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An organization that is rationally designed to achieve particular objectives, often by means of explicit rules, regulations, and procedures are called ____ organizations.

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Correct Answer: Formal

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Money and material that can be used to access valued goods and services is called ____.

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Correct Answer: Economic capital

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A group consisting of two persons is called ____.

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Correct Answer: Dyad

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Organizations in which members are forced to give unquestioned obedience to authority are called _____ organizations.

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Correct Answer: Coercive

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A subgroup that forms between group members, enabling them to dominate the group in their own interest is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Alliance

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